Nina Zolotow

NINA ZOLOTOW is editor-in-chief of the Yoga for Healthy Aging blog. She is a yoga writer and a certified yoga teacher and a longtime yoga practitioner. Her special area of expertise is yoga for emotional well-being (including yoga for stress, insomnia, depression, and anxiety). She completed the three-year teacher training program at The Yoga Room in Berkeley, CA, has studied yoga therapy with Shari Ser and Bonnie Maeda, and is especially influenced by the teachings of Donald Moyer. She has studied extensively with Rodney Yee and is inspired by the teachings of Patricia Walden on yoga for emotional healing. She teaches workshops and series classes on yoga for emotional well-being, yoga for stress, yoga for better sleep, home practice, and cultivating equanimity. Nina is the coauthor, with Rodney Yee, of two books on yoga: Yoga: The Poetry of the Body and Moving toward Balance.

ARTICLES

Would you like to keep your brain and nervous system happy as you age?
These 20 pages provide must-have information about how aging affects your brain, central nervous system, peripheral nervous system, digestive system, circulatory system, and more. There are many easy things you can do...

by Nina Zolotow, author of Yoga for Healthy Aging
Because the sixth anniversary of the Yoga for Healthy Aging blog is coming up next week, I thought I’d check to see what our nine most popular—or at least most viewed—posts were over all time. (Nine seems like a random number but for...

We have excerpted the chapter “Yoga for Balance” from Yoga for Healthy Aging: A Guide to Lifelong Well-Being by Baxter Bell and Nina Zolotow. This chapter describes balance, how yoga can improve balance, and yoga practices to increase your balance.
Click here to read “Yoga for Balance”...

by Nina Zolotow, author of Yoga for Healthy Aging
Asana works to steady the mind through a focus on physical sensation, breath, or drishti (gaze). If we can bring that same focus into our Accessible Yoga practice, we quickly realize that the outward appearance of a pose is not a sign of...